A$AP Rocky: Testing the Waters

"Sotheby’s, though — that is something new. That evening, he was unveiling “Lab Rat,” a performance installation in a high-ceilinged space on the seventh floor typically used for auctions... He was inside a large glass box set up in the middle of that room, with tools of torment spread around him: exercise equipment, holes in the wall through which he could be touched, a large pool of ice water. The box, he said, was “a metaphor for me being distracted.” —Jon Caramanica, Full New York Times Feature